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[KEYNES, John Neville]. SHAW, George Bernard, editor. Fabian Essays in Socialism. by G. Bernard Shaw. Sidney Webb. William Clarke. Sydney Olivier. Annie Besant. Graham Wallas. and Hubert Bland. London: The Fabian Society, 1889.
8o. Frontispiece. Original green decorative cloth reproducing a design after Walter Crane on the cover and a design after May Morris on the spine.
Provenance: John Neville Keynes (bookplate, signature on front free endpaper, pencil annotations in margins).
FIRST EDITION of this canonical text of English democratic socialism by the leading Fabians. FINE ASSOCIATION COPY, owned and annotated by John Neville Keynes, Cambridge logician and economist. This copy is copiously annotated by the father of John Maynard Keynes, whose comments include numerous acerbic criticisms of the Fabian theories. As an anti-socialist and broadly Liberal Unionist, Keynes strongly disagreed with many of the theories here presented. Einaudi 1811; Laurence BB7a; Wells 7.
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Provenance: John Neville Keynes (bookplate, signature on front free endpaper, pencil annotations in margins).
FIRST EDITION of this canonical text of English democratic socialism by the leading Fabians. FINE ASSOCIATION COPY, owned and annotated by John Neville Keynes, Cambridge logician and economist. This copy is copiously annotated by the father of John Maynard Keynes, whose comments include numerous acerbic criticisms of the Fabian theories. As an anti-socialist and broadly Liberal Unionist, Keynes strongly disagreed with many of the theories here presented. Einaudi 1811; Laurence BB7a; Wells 7.